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The Magical Properties of Herbs page (1) (2)
Mace
Burn to increase psychic powers and carry to improve the intellect.

Mandrake Root (poison!!)
Used for protection, prosperity, and fertility.

Mistletoe Leaves
Burn to banish evil. Carry or place in appropriate spot to protect against lightning, disease, misfortune. Carry or wear for good luck in hunting. Women carry it to aid conception. Place beneath the pillow for restful sleep & beautiful dreams.

Mugwort
Use infusion to wash crystal balls & magic mirrors. Burn with sandalwood during scrying. Use in pillows for prophetic dreams.

Nettle
Stuff a poppet to remove a curse and send it back, or carry in a sachet. Sprinkle around the house to keep evil out and to send it back. Hold in the hand to ward off ghosts; wear as an amulet to avert evil.

Orange Peel
Add to love sachets. Use for prosperity powders, incenses, and mixtures. The Chinese regard oranges as symbols of luck and good fortune.

Orris Root
Carry the root to find and hold love. Hang whole root from the eaves of the house or add to the bath water for personal protection. Add the powder to sachets, sprinkle on sheets, clothing, and the body, as well as around the house. Sometimes known as "Love Drawing Powder".

Parsley
Eat to provoke lust and promote fertility. Carry for protection. Use in purification baths and those to stop all misfortune.

Passion Flower
Place in the house to calm problems and troubles, and to bring peace. Carry to attract friends and great popularity. Place beneath the pillow to aid sleep.

Patchouli
Use in money and prosperity mixtures and spells. Use in fertility talismans. Substitute for "graveyard dust". Add to love sachets & baths to attract people and promote lust.

Pennyroyal
Wear for protection against the evil eye & as an aid for business deals. Give to quarreling couple to promote peace.

Peppermint
Use for healing & purification. Add to love mixtures & baths. Use in pillows to aid sleep and for seeing the future in dreams.

Pipsissewa
Carry to attract money.

Poppy Seed
Use in mixtures to aid sleep. Eat or carry for fertility & to attract love & money. Add to food to induce love. Use in love sachets.

Red Clover
Use in lust potions. Add to bath water to aid in dealing with financial arrangements. Sprinkle infusion to remove negative spirits. If you have been disappointed in love, wear near the heart in a piece of blue silk to help you through.

Rose Hips
Use in healing spells and mixtures, and fast luck mixtures (may be mixed with rose petals). Also use in love incenses, mixtures and infusions. String and wear whole rose hips as love attracting beads.

Rose Petals & Buds
Use in love mixtures and baths. Use in healing spells and fast-luck mixtures. Sprinkle around the house to calm personal stress & household upheavals.

Rosemary
Burn to purify an area. Mix with juniper berries and burn to promote healing. Place beneath the pillow to drive away nightmares. Carry to remain healthy. Use in the bath to purify and to preserve youthfulness.

Rue
Add to healing incenses and poppets. Add to baths to break all hexes and curses cast against you. Add to exorcism incenses and mixtures. It is protective when hung up at the doors or placed in a sachet.

Sage
Carried to promote wisdom. Use in healing and money spells. To guard against the evil eye, wear a small horn filled with sage. Used to ensure a long life.

Slippery Elm
Burn slippery elm and throw a knotted yellow cord or thread into the fire. Any gossip against you will stop.

Solomon's Seal
Place in the four quarters of the house to guard it. Use in exorcism and protection spells. Sprinkle infusion of the root to clear an area of evil. Use in offertory incenses.

Spearmint
Use in all healing applications. Use to provoke lust. Smell to increase and sharpen mental power. Use to stuff a pillow or mattress for protection while asleep.

Star Anise
Worn as beads or burned as incense to increase psychic power. Carried for luck. Placed on the altar to give it power.

Strawberry Leaf
Carry for luck. Carry small packet when pregnant to ease pregnancy pains.

Thyme
Burn or wear to attract good health. Use in healing spells. Place beneath the pillow for restful sleep & to avert nightmares. Wear to help develop psychic powers. Burn to purify area. Carry or smell for courage and energy. Wear to enable you to see the fairies.

Tonka Beans
Use in love sachets. Carry to attract love, money, bring luck, grant courage, and ward off illness.

Valerian
Use in protective and love sachets and in pillows to aid sleep. Powdered, it is sometimes used as "graveyard dust".

Vervain
Common ingredient in love mixtures, purification baths, and protective spells. Keep in the home to protect it from lightning. Scatter in the home to bring peace and wear to calm the emotions. Use in exorcism incense, powder, or infusion. Use in money and prosperity spells.

Vetivert
Burn to overcome evil spells. Use in love powders, sachets, and incenses. Add to bathwater in a sachet to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex. Use in money spells and mixtures. Carry to attract luck. Use in anti-theft incenses.

Violet Leaves
Wear in a green sachet to help wounds to heal and prevent evil spirits from making the wound worse.

White Willow Bark
Carry or place in the home to guard against evil. Use in healing spells. To conjure spirits, mix crushed willow bark with sandalwood and burn at the waning moon outdoors.

Witch Grass Root
Carry or sprinkle under the bed to attract new lovers. Use in unhexing and uncrossing rituals. Sprinkle infusion to disperse entities. Wear to dispel depression.

Woodruff
Carry to attract money and prosperity and to bring victory to athletes and warriors. Place in a sachet of leather to guard against all harm.

Wormwood
Burn in incense to develop psychic powers. Mix with sandalwood & burn to summon spirits. Carry to protect from bewitchment. Use infusion to wash and consecrate scrying mirrors. Used in old love infusion formulas. DO NOT INGEST!

Yerba Mate
Wear to attract the opposite sex. Infusion is a "lust" potion drunk with a loved one to ensure that you stay together. To break off the relationship spill some onto the ground.

Yerba Santa
Carry or add to baths to improve or attain beauty. Add to healing incenses. Wear around the neck to ward off illnesses and wounds. Carry for spiritual strength, to increase psychic powers, and to protect the bearer.

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